The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-08-27
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hurt and not single convict escaped.
FLORIDA.
Tallahassee is to have daily paper.
Crops of all kinds continue good in Leon
county.
| The Sanford House will not be moved this
season.
The bridge at Ormond will be completed
n few days.
There are now four saw mills between
| Ocoee and Roseland Park, a distance of five
miles.
| NJ c. Rerdeli, of "star route" notoriety,
has purchased an interest in Orlando's Daily
| Record.
The new record books for Lake county
have been shipped and are expected to ar
| rive this week
On Thursday of last week over $500 worth
of tickets were sold by the Florida Railway
and Navigation Company at Leesburg.
The frame of the South Florida railroad
| round house at Sanford is being rapidly put
| together, and tfs building will be completed
in short time
Information has reached the Tampa Jour
nal that about ), 900 cigars were struggled"
into that port from the steamer Mascotte,
last Thursday night.
There was considerable talk on the streets
of Palatka, Wednesday, about the street
| railroad ordinance, and the opinion now
| prevails that it will pass over the Mayors
| veto.
The people of Apopka are making an eff
| fort to have the new road the Louisville and
| Nashville are building through the State
come to that place, and for 200 it can be
| obtained.
George |. Russell and NJ q. Brown, of
| Orlando have 500 pineapple plants ON their
place, some of them now in bloom, while
| they have already gathered large quantity
of ripe fruit from them.
The road beds and equipments of the va
rious railroads in Volusia county are as
sessed S465, 900, and the telegraph lines at
| 5000. This is a great increase over the
| assessment of last year.
| c. II. Bent. Superintendent of the Florida
| Southern railroad, has purchased one of the
| prettiest building sites in Barlow, on David
son street, and will soon have handsome
residence standing on it.
The trouble at Ellingers cigar factory at
Key West was settled Wednesday. A bar
| rel of beer was sent for and over each
bumper, both Cubans and Americans vowed
eternal friendship, cooperation and good
will.
About two miles from Lake Helen is a
beautiful sheet of water called Spirit Lake
| In this vicinity several SpritualSts reside,
among them Prof. Colby, a noted Spiritual
list lecturer They have regular meetings
to commune with the spirits.
Key West Call: There are some grave
rumors floating around about the manage
| ment of the Barracks Hospital, while under
the direction of the recent Board of Health
Indeed it is stated that patients taken there
with money on their person had none re-
turned to them when they were discharged.
On Aug 3 George White, a negro who
was working for gentleman near Eustis,
forged his employers name to check ON
Bishops bank, of Eustis, for so. Having
secured the money, he took up his residence
with some negroes near Fruitland Park,
where he was arrested this week. after a
struggle.
Ramouni, an Apache buck, and his squaw,
passed through Pensacola Thursday en-
route from Mount Vernon Barracks, Ala
bama, for Fort Pickens. The pair were in
charge of sergeant. Ramouni got drunk
in Mount Vernon, raised the mischief, and
the Colonel in command had him trans
ferred to Pickens.
post office building, and j. B. Kinsey q
Co.'S building, now occupied by c. l..
Koonce, were consumed by fire Wednesday
night at Sumtervile. c. L. Koonce's stock
was nearly all saved The loss is estimated
at from 5000 to $4,000 There is no i'll
surance. The cause OF the fire is unknown.
Last week cow belonging to Col r. II.
Gamble, OF Tallahassee, exhibited decided
symptoms of hydrophobia, though there
appeared no external evidence of her having
been bitten by n dog. Drs Gamble and
Gwynn had the COW killed, and innoculated
a dog, with both the saliva and the blood.
The dog is being confined and his symptoms
observed with interest.
The elopement of Perry ColleS, of Gaines.
vile, and Miss Bessie Collins very pretty
17-year-old miss of Orange Springs, and
their subsequent marriage at Waldo Thurs
day, created a tremendous sensation.
Cokes slipped into town Wednesday night
and made all necessary arrangements for his
J fight with yhis lady love. Their present
whereabouts are unknown.
The Okahumpla and Riverside Land and
Improvement Company limited) perfected
an organization at LeeSburg on Monday
night by elocting Dr.. John f. Richmond
president Il. "A. Green, vice president; John
Ellis, treasurer, and w NJ Bennett sacre-
tary. The especial object of the company
is TO advertise, attract attention TO and build
up Okahumpka and vicinity.
A Eustis correspondent writes: "An cleo
} ton is to be held in Orange county Sept -.
TO determine whether that county shall be
dry or wet. IL was mistake of the tenn
perance folks to call IL SO soon. Nearly all
who are away spending the summer would
vote dry, but they will rot he back in time
TO vote If such an election is called for
Lake county, it should not be earlier than
some time in December"
The first shipments Of 'this seasons
oranges were made Tuesday from Alta
monte and Twin Lake Dr. Person was the
shipper from the latter point This is
about as early as was ever known for the
golden fruit to commence to move. Ship
pers at this season will no doubt realize
very fancy figures These oranges are
doubtless the fruit from few trees that
bloomed last year out of season.
At Apalachicola last week, Scot Sanford
and wife were discovered industriousy en-
gagged digging in the ground near Prince
Venable's house Not knowing who Scot
was at the time, and thinking, perhaps.
some evil was at work, Prince gathered a
force and investigated. Scot said Silas Jus
tice had told him there was money buried